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Fifty-six years later, ventilation is still bad. And with the college's enrollment pushing 1200, elbow room, during peak studying periods, is a luxury. At the same time, undergraduates' studying needs have changed. Radcliffe Library was designed when the college was a self-sufficient institution and long before the invention of reserve books or Gen Ed courses...
...between their ears didn't move, and fans at London's Madame Tussaud's were finally sure which was which. Louis Armstrong knocked the rag mops off the top of Variety's singles chart last week, and the whisper was that they had passed their peak. But if their graven images at the world's foremost wax museum were not proof enough of their staying power, Boston Pops Conductor Arthur Fiedler had a bit more...
...mathematical text which skips twenty intermediate steps of a proof with a perfunctory "It is obvious from the above that ...," Wiener has a tendency to lcap from idea to idea, ignoring the connections between points. The reader often feels as if he is watching a mountaingoat bound from peak to peak--the display is impressive, but often hard to follow...
...want to come over to the Business School, we travel on the surface." We began to wish we had been as smart, for by now the roof was so low that we had to scramble awkwardly along a cold, damp floor, and as the curve flattened out at the peak of the arch, we were forced to crawl on hands and knees. Then, at last, we started downhill, again able to walk upright...
WHEN bowling was burgeoning a few years ago, the Brunswick Corp.'s dazzling profits and stock splits were a financial 300-game. But the game's popularity peak has passed, the industry is vastly overbuilt-and Brunswick has lately been getting mostly gutter balls. Chairman Benjamin E. Bensinger, 58, fourth of that name to run the 119-year-old company, last week reported a 1963 loss of $10.1 million, largely because Brunswick set aside $15 million to cover defaulted payments on alleys and pinsetters. Trim Ted Bensinger is undismayed. He foresaw the drop and tried to forestall...